\ Victoria, Vev-1zZ4 B.C, us Serving the ; _ Progressive — “North west —— Mondor, April + Legislative Library | Parliment Buildings Comp. Approximately 35 trees fell in Sunday’ 5 storm at Radley Alcan traffic, Park In Kitimat. This big fella dropped right across the | the park, roof of the shower bullding in the park. Fortunately for recreation site, trees did not block the road leading thro ‘traffic was able to ugh re it’s way through the Airways sale surprises employees ST. JOHN'S, Nfld: (CP) — The sale of Eastern. Provincial Airways to CP Air caught airline employees“ by surprise today, but a govern: - spokesman said the ‘com-’ pars actions now make sense, ‘ ansportation; Minister. “pane oF Newton 6d te ment recent movement of EPA headquarters from Gander, Nad., to Halifax must. have been a prelude to the: ‘sale demanded by Cite was ‘alla “setup for the sale, part of the unwritten arrangements,” he said. “CP obyiously aaid, ‘You do all the hard things and we'll step in and take over, vas EPA said the move will simplify scheduling and save the airline about $8 million a year, The carrier : had earlier moved all its pilots and air attendants to Halifax. Dawe said he had suspected the airline was about to be sold when the staff shuffles began The minister said he isn’t as. concerned about who owns the airline as he is about the level of service it provides, EPA has the worst record. of keeping to schedules among North American airlines, Dawe said, adding 0 per ent of EPA flights ‘operate on time. — HEARS RUMORS “A spokesman for the EPA local ‘of the’ Canadian: Air Line Pilots union of the sald.“ “They don’t take us into their confidence . when making decisions,”’ said the spokesman, who asked not to be identified. CP Air will assume 100-per-cent ownership of EPA and its sub- sidiary, Air Maritime, for $20 million if approval is given by the Canadian Transport Commission. . CP Air also will Inherit. labor relations problems now before the Canada Labor Relations Board. Sl unionized pilots fired after a six-month strike last year have charged EPA with unfair dismissal and are seeking their jobs back. The labor relations board also was instrumental] in ending the strike, ordering EPA to take. back its. 40 unionized pilots and give them senlority over non-unionized pilots hired during the strike. -EPA is engaged in a battle with the Newfoundland government aver the movement of ~ ‘Shearing pleads guilty KAMLOOPS, B.C, (CP) — David, Wiliam Shearing, charged with killing six members of the Johnson and Bentley families whose bodies were thrown into their car and set ablaze near their vacation cam- pground, pleaded guilty today to six counts of second-degree murder. ° . ‘The surprise ‘development came at the start of the British Columbia Supreme Court trial .of the heavyset 24-year-old laborer and handyman, who waa ‘not arrested until more than a yéar after the gruesome slayings stunned the quiet rural community of Clesr- water and touched off.a frultless manhunt extending to Enstern Canada ‘Following the plea, the Crown began laying out the evidence in preparation ‘for sentencing. The two families failed to return from a camping trip after meeting ebec in Wells Gray Provinclat Park . during the weekend of August 3, 1962. The’ Johnson family from Kelowna included Bob, 44; his wife, Jackie, 41; and their two SPO daughters, Janet, 13, and Karen, 11, The Bentleys George, 64, and Edith, 69 were Jackle’s parents. ‘quality used parts from WHY BUY NEW? WHEN USEDWILL DO! ' Qo you want parts io fix up yobr.car but your budget _ won't allow it? Beat the high cost af new parts with S.K.B. AUTO SALVAGE | 635-2333 or 635-9095 \ "4890 Duhan (justoff Hwy. 16)” it was not until late September . that their charred remains were found in the burnt-out shell of the. Johnsons’ car which had been pushed or driven down a gully off a wooded. side road. Although ‘pathologists were -unable to determine the exact cause of death, it is believed the six were ahot, put in the car and then driven to the secluded part of the park where the car was discovered. The Bentleys’ camper-truck, also burned, wasn’t found until late October 1963. Prior to that police ‘used. information obtained In ex-' tensive interviews with residents of Clearwater, which borders the rugged, wilderness park, and a nationwide search for two French-speaking men, That search included driving a red.and silver, 1991 Ford camper- truck from British Columbia to Shearing, tall and broad- shouldered with reddish-brown hair, grew up in Clearwater and was known as polite and soft- spoken: ‘He waa arrested in November 1063 in Dawsen Creek after having gone to the Tumbler Ridge coal flelds to look for work, only begin: management and maintenance- personnel to Halifax, a move that cost: Gander 300 jobs, Dawe said Harry Steele, EPA. : d ’ latiod said he had “heard prenident. 4nd major shareholder iateoed. vitor,” but, the Halifax. : gland ie did not ‘inform the | refiises to provide- the Newfoun- “TatBhagelee Madeleliie,: dland government with an.internal: finericial ‘study; The government ‘bas said. it wants the study. to determine if the airline will save $8 million by moving to Halifax. i are served by six Boelng 731 j Four Hawker-Siddeley 748 tutbo-prop aircraft, which operate under the Air Maritime name, provide service on. most of’ the “haul routes ag ‘well. as flights - 18, Quebec ‘Established 1908 Damage extensive during wind storm TERRACE— Damage to B.C. Hydro and B,C. Fel lines was quite extensive as a result of Sunday’ 6 wind storm, with many area’s being without power for over 12 hours. According to B.C. Hydro District Manager, Sandy Sandhals, a number of locations were’ still without power as late as “Monday morning. “All the main feeders are on but a lot of outlying, area's, are’ still without power,” he explained, continuing that, “Lakelse Lake is still off, Old Remo: has been restored but New Remo is still without power. As well, a portion of Halliwell Avenue’ and Kalum Lake Drive is still off, Jackpine Flats is off, and a few areas north of Terrace are still waiting to be restored.” Power went off in the Terrace area shortly after 4 p.m., coin- ciding with outages , in the Kitimat area. Sandhals- says that three crews were working all night Sunday and through to Monday morning to restore power to affected areas, and he hopes that power can be restored by this evening. He explained ‘that while it's relatively easy to fix the main lines, it’s the breaks in the smaller lines feeding individual users that are hard to locate and repair. Estimated costs of damage were ‘not available, but Sandhals thinks the majority of the cost will be for ~ Court suspends. earl -“NORONTO. (cP) — AS royal: jon" irivestigating.:---48: anienion’ Islatid in thie Gulf of St, Lawrence, ~” reams» baby deaths tem: Under the sale agreement, EPA will be based in Halifax, Steele will remain as president and chief executive officer and other management people also will remain with the airline. ... EPA serves 16 points throughout ° the Atlantle provinces with links to Montreal and Toronto. The major and St. Pierre-Miquelon, French islands otf Newfoundland. EPA and CP Air signed a. working agreement last year that involved co-ordinating schedules on flights to Montreal and Toronto. The agreement also includes some sharing ‘of. equipment . and per: sonnel, : EPA has said it will soon have to, buy new planes. Jobs for unemployed still main issue TORONTO. (cP) — . Providing jobs for as many of the 1.5 millicn unemployed’ as possible - must remain the major aim of govern- ment policy, the Macdonald royal a en Isston bald in ‘its first report “Our view is that it must be a fundamental objective. Indeed, restoration of a high level of em- ployment is basic to overcoming a number of the other challenges posed in these pages,”’ "Providing meaningful ” em- — Ployment is a challenge with im- cations that Canadians have to explore.” - ‘The $22